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title: Then I will tell you why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are enemies--… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I will tell you why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are enemies--for once they were very good friends in the old days. Who acts: I, Blackbirds. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice, with its depend
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The War-dance of the Mice, sentence 35

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Then I will tell you why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are enemies--for once they were very good friends in the old days.

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**Who acts:** I, Blackbirds · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** Coyote, you, enemies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The War-dance of the Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Blackbirds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:5:36
# text = Then I will tell you why the Coyote and the Blackbirds are enemies--for once they were very good friends in the old days.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | the Coyote and enemies | you |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient friend=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Blackbirds | enemies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Blackbirds *= blackbird* |  |  |  | day | for good friends | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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